Share your stories-Past and Present

[Peggy George]

We'd like to use this discussion forum to start a fantastic idea shared by Charles Emery. Please click on the link Reply to This" and add any news or stories you would like to share. If you prefer, send your story/news to Charles via email and we'll share them here. We'd all love to read them! You can even add scanned newspaper stories or photos if you like.
Peggy George on behalf of Charles
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Dear Web Site Members;

I'm going to try to find some interesting stories about our classmates who have achieved success, a small claim to fame perhaps, those whose life and careers are examples to us all. I'd like to spotlight not only those who have, sadly, left us but also, with their permission, those who are still with us.

Let me know if you think this is something our Glory Years friends would be interested in and, if so, send me your ideas.

I'm not promising a weekly or monthly news item here, but will do what I can.

In the last day or two we have added the names of Darlene Holman Kaa '62 and Dave Sargent '62 to our list of friends who have left us. Possibly we can get this posted on our website.

Even though he wasn't a member of our Glory Years (1960-1963) troupe, I don't believe I have to say much about Steven Spielberg. So I won't.

I'll start with remembering the wonderful life of Dave Sargent.

[Peggy George]

Dave Sargent

Dave Sargent, formally known as David Stansfeld Sargent, M.D., died peacefully at his home in Seattle on July 8, 2006, following a long illness.

Dave attended SHS as a freshman in 1958-59, then transferred to the newly opened Arcadia High., from which he graduated in 1962. He went on to study pre-med at ASU, then got his MD degree at the University of Colorado in Denver, and did his pediatric residency at the University of Chicago hospital, and his psychiatry residency at Harvard University's Massachusetts Mental Health Clinic in Cambridge, Mass.

Dave was a geriatric psychiatrist in private practice in Seattle, where he had lived since 1989. Before that, he worked in a number of public mental health clinics in the Boston area, where he provided great help to low-income people, but did not make much money himself.

Dave played in the SHS and Arcadia bands as a trumpeter and drummer, but later in life took up the mandolin, guitar and bass fiddle, and played in Seattle bluegrass folk bands, which he enjoyed a lot.

He is survived by his wife Lenore, children Michael, Allison, and Kayla, and by his older brother Steve (SHS 1959) and by Steve's daughters Miriam and Eliana.

Memorial contributions may be made to: Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research, 1100 Peninsula Blvd. Hewlett, NY 11557, or the World Old Time Fiddlers Assoc (WOTFA), 108 Ironside Place, East Wenatchee, WA. 98802, or the Southwest Research Station, PO Box 16553, Portal, AZ.

[Charles A. Emery]

Dr. David Sargent